Richard Barthelmess

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

131

Movies

Born: May 8, 1895 – August 17, 1963
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star. Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut. His father died when he was a baby and his mother, Caroline Harris , was a stage actress, so he worked in theatres in his early days, between schooling, doing "walk-ons". This led to acting in college, doing amateur productions. Russian actress Alla Nazimova, a friend of the family, had been taught English by Barthelmess's mother. Nazimova in return convinced Barthelmess to try acting professionally and he made his first film appearance in 1916 in the serial Gloria's Romance as an extra. At this time he also appeared as a supporting player in several films starring Marguerite Clark. His next role, in War Brides opposite Alla Nazimova, attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offered him several important roles, finally casting him opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). He soon became one of Hollywood's highest paid performers, starring in such classics as The Patent Leather Kid (1927) and The Noose (1928); he was nominated for Best Actor at the first Academy Awards for his performance in both these films, and he won a Special Citation for producing The Patent Leather Kid. He founded his own production company, Inspiration Film Company, together with Charles Duell and Henry King. One of their films, Tol'able David (1921), in which Barthelmess starred as a teenage mailman who finds courage, was a major success. With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess' fortunes changed. He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods (1930), The Dawn Patrol (1930), The Last Flight (1931), and The Cabin in the Cotton (1932), Central Airport (1933), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth's character's husband in Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Barthelmess , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

89 films

Only Angels Have Wings

19397.3

The Spoilers

19426.2

Shore Leave

19255.0

The Show of Shows

19296.6

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

19196.9

Soul-Fire

192510.0

Scarlet Seas

19284.0

The Tingler

19596.4

Fury

19239.5

The Stolen Jools

19315.6

Peppy Polly

19198.0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

Wild Primrose

19187.0

Just a Song at Twilight

19168.0

Sonny

192210.0

Heroes for Sale

19337.1

Boots

19194.0

Way Down East

19206.9

The Dawn Patrol

19306.7

Tol'able David

19217.0

Central Airport

19336.0

New Toys

19257.0

For Valour

1917

Twenty-One

19238.0

Seeing Stars

19224.9

The Mayor of 44th Street

19425.0

A Modern Hero

19347.0

The Eternal Sin

1917

The Enchanted Cottage

19247.3

Son of the Gods

19306.3

Three Men and a Girl

19198.0

I'll Get Him Yet

19198.0

Just Suppose

19266.3

The Amateur Gentleman

19267.0

Massacre

19345.5

Alias the Doctor

19326.0

The Finger Points

19316.4

Scarlet Days

19196.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

1921

The Last Flight

19316.5

The Valentine Girl

1917

War Brides

19166.0

The Man Who Talked Too Much

19406.4

Weary River

19295.8

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

The Seven Swans

1917

Sunshine Nan

1918

Bab's Diary

1917

The Bright Shawl

19237.0

The Cabin in the Cotton

19326.3

The Beautiful City

19259.0

The White Black Sheep

19267.0

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

19264.2

Spy of Napoleon

19368.0

Ranson's Folly

19267.2

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

19194.8

The Streets of Illusion

1917

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

19289.0

Nearly Married

1917

The Moral Code

19171.0

The Drop Kick

19275.3

Starlit Days at the Lido

19355.7

The Lash

19306.5

The Noose

19287.7

The Soul of a Magdalen

1917

The Great Chase

19626.4

The Fighting Blade

19237.0

Wheel of Chance

19288.0

The Bond Boy

19239.0

Young Nowheres

19298.0

The Voice of Hollywood

1930

Midnight Alibi

19346.7

Camille

1917

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

199810.0

How to Break 90 #1: The Grip

19337.5

The Love Flower

19204.7

Four Hours to Kill!

19355.7

Hit-the-Trail Holliday

1918

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'

19318.0

Drag

19296.7

The Idol Dancer

19205.7

The Hope Chest

19188.0

The Patent Leather Kid

19276.1

The Seventh Day

19226.9

Classmates

19247.0

Experience

19218.0

Rich Man, Poor Man

1918

Out of the Ruins

19288.0

Bab's Burglar

1917